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USB Device not recognised
I have a problem more or less the same. I have two USB external HDDs, both were happly plugged into the USB ports, one was plugged into the front and the other into one of the ports on the back. Then suddenly for not apparent reason, they were lost by my computer. They cannot be detected and I just get that error. I also have a USB memory stick and that comes up with the same. As far as I can see everything else on USB works fine.
I have a USB hub, which is USB 1.1. That normally has another USB external HDD and my memory stick plugged into it, the slow speed doesn't greatly matter for these two, for the first two it does. However when I plug the two that stopped working into the hub, they work and are detected fine.
So I have the hard drives working but slow, but I totally frustrated by the whole problem, why it should occur just like that out of nothing, and what to do to put it right.
If I went out and purchased a USB 2 hub, and used that for these two drives, I wonder if that would work. It's a workaround, , but I don't understand why it's happened. Help!!!
Neil
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